Long range goals lead to outcomes for success:

Achieving outcomes that protect the integrity of our mission and significantly decrease the incidence of high-risk behaviors in at-risk youth is the basis for our agency program goals.

Agency Goals

  • To Maintain Fiscal responsibility
  • To adhere to Best Practice Standards of Care as established by our national accrediting body, the Council on Accreditation 
  • To operate in accordance with the highest ethical standards within our  relationship to all stakeholders: consumers, referring agencies, staff, donors, board members, and suppliers 
  • To adhere to all mandates established by state and federal regulatory bodies
  • To provide our clients, staff, and guests with an orderly, safe, secure, and healthy environment by: 
    • having board approved policies and procedures that are reviewed on a continuing basis
    • providing sound management of the program
    • maintaining consistent communication among the board of directors, all staff, donors, and volunteers
    • conducting quarterly risk management/performance and quality improvement reviews
    • ensuring effective program administration in all departments
    • providing safe transportation
    • providing clients with a health and wellness program that includes nutritious meals and the availability of medical and dental care
    • maintaining a campus that is free of safety hazards
    • mandating appropriate background and criminal checks are completed on an annual basis for all employees and recurring volunteers
    • providing orientation and on-going training for staff and board members

Program Goals

To provide quality therapeutic interventions that address the child's display of at-risk behaviors by:

  • developing individualized care plans that are updated and amended throughout the course of a child's residential placement
  • providing a variety of cost-efficient and time-sensitive modalities and interventions that address the child's unique learning styles
  • making the child aware of behavioral expectations and limitations 
  • providing consistent rewards and consequences for behaviors displayed 
  • engaging family members in the therapeutic healing process through open communication 
  • collecting feedback from all stakeholders in order to assess: the value of services provided and their requests for future services 
  • ensuring our staff are professionally qualified to carry out their jobs 
  • refining the program content based on evaluation results

To prepare the child for the transition from intensive residential treatment and group care into both a stable and healthy family living arrangement and a less restrictive academic environment by:

  • providing both staff and volunteer role models and mentors that are representative of the community in which they will live
  • offering individualized academic programs aimed at enhancing the child�s grade level performance
  • exploring family relationships and teaching problem-solving and conflict resolution techniques that focus on the issues that caused the home placement disruption
  • offering multi-family parenting and education groups
  • providing individualized therapeutic interventions geared towards family reunification
  • teaching the child and family to communicate in a non-threatening or manipulative manner

To assist the child in decreasing problematic behaviors and as an alternative to that, in developing pro-social behaviors that will enable him to successfully reintegrate into his community and reunite with his family by:

  • ensuring the child's active participation on all counseling, education, recreation, and community activities offered
  • teaching a child to develop and take personal responsibility their actions and behaviors
  • offering opportunities for the child to develop: confidence in their abilities, essential life-skills, and a sense of belonging with their peers
  • embracing diversity through the development of an understanding, support, and tolerance for cultural differences
  • fostering age-appropriate peer relationships
  • educating the child on the dangers of substance abuse and violence towards others
  • offering opportunities for the child to engage in activities that allow them to demonstrate creativity and self-expression
  • collecting outcome measurement data that captures positive changes in behaviors